An office car park has a different problem from a shopping mall. Traffic is predictable but brutally concentrated: almost everyone arrives inside the same forty minutes and leaves inside the same hour. And the person paying is not the driver — it is the company that rents the floor.
Splitting spaces between tenants
Each company gets a quota: how many cars may be inside at the same time. Within that quota the tenant decides who gets access — the system is tied to licence plates or passes. When a company changes staff, access is edited in the interface instead of reissuing cards.
This is what makes the car park manageable: you sell capacity to companies, not individual spaces to individual people.
Visitors
Two schemes, and they can be combined. Either the tenant issues a single-use QR code for a specific visit, or the guest enters at the standard tariff and reception validates the parking so the cost falls on the tenant. A common setup is two free hours for guests and paid time after that.
Monthly invoicing
The system keeps a record per company: subscriptions, guest entries, hours used. At the end of the period you get a report and invoice on facts rather than estimates. For most business centres this is the actual reason to automate — not the barrier itself, but the end of monthly arguments about who used what.
Morning peak
Licence plate recognition opens the barrier without the car stopping: the driver does not lower a window or reach for a card. That single detail removes most of the morning queue. For subscribers you can also assign a separate lane, so staff are not stuck behind a visitor working out the payment kiosk.
Prices
- Barriers already installed — control part only: controller, recognition, software. From €2,000.
- Full set for one entry and exit — from €4,000.
- Payment kiosk — €1,000, with a bill acceptor €200 more.
- Cloud infrastructure and updates — from €200 per month, software support included.
Timeline: from one week if the mechanics are in place, a few weeks for a full installation.
Common questions
Can different tenants have different rules?
Yes — different quotas, different guest allowances, different tariffs. All of it lands in one monthly report.
What if a tenant exceeds its quota?
The extra car either does not get in or enters as a paid guest, depending on how you configure it. Either way it is visible in the report.
Does the car park work during a power cut?
Yes. An uninterruptible power supply is part of the set, and the controller keeps access rules and tariffs locally, so it also works without internet.
See also: complete parking systems · parking for residential complexes · parking software
Other property types
Configuration differs by object: residential complexes · shopping malls · office buildings · logistics and truck stops
